Short Course Description
Biology, medicine and environmental sciences are revolutionized when quantitative methods are used to solve problems in these fields. Bioengineering designs, manufactures and uses biological systems to solve society?s needs. A systems approach to bioengineering requires understanding of a number of disciplines including environmental engineering, systems biology, environmental microbiology, and ecology. Environmental Bioengineering aims to solve environmental and ecological problems using living systems. However, as any other technology Environmental Bioengineering also has implications. This course introduces the field of Environmental Bioengineering from the perspective how to use Bioengineering to achieve desired environmental outcomes and how to recognize and avoid problems in such applications.
Learning objectives:
To define and describe Environmental Bioengineering
To introduce the scientific principles involved in Environmental Bioengineering
To show how the systems approach can be used for the analysis of Environmental Bioengineering
Demonstrate the applications of Bioengineering to solve environmental problems and how to perform risk assessment and management environmental biotechnologies.
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